Current TCNJ students Marina Baciu, Erin Obermayer, and Sofia Stepanoff, gave presentations at this year’s virtual Garden State Undergraduate Mathematics Conference (GSUMC) , which was held on Saturday, April 17, 2021, in conjunction with the MAA-NJ Section meeting.
Miruna Baciu:
Erin Obermayer:
Sofia Stepanoff:
In addition to our current students, alumna Rebecca Santorella (’17) gave a contributed talk at the MAA-NJ Section Meeting:
Rebecca Santorella, Brown University – “JUSTFAIR: JUdicial System Transparency for Fairness through Archived/Inferred Records”
Abstract: The US public has a constitutional right to access criminal trial proceedings. In practice, it is difficult to exercise this right as well as to quantitatively study federal sentencing disparities. We have assembled a public database of criminal sentence decisions made in federal district courts called JUSTFAIR. This large-scale database links information about defendants with information about their federal crimes and sentences, and, crucially, with the identity of the sentencing judge. In this talk, we discuss challenges associated with assembling this database as well as preliminary work and observations from studying sentencing equity and patterns of individual judges.
Congratulations to all of you!